At 7.30 there was a cloudless sky + by 8.30 a snow blizzard! During the forenoon there were some slight showers of snow. At night it was calm + frosty. Glass rising. Dav.1 was shooting at Fairnilee + I saw some town cases of his + own walking! Laid some accounts. Sent off Pat’s letter with draft for £5 for Xmas.2 Wrote Jean3 re Dora’s debts4 my Coryza was rather worse towards evening. Mrs Mack5 called with Sperlings [sic]6 + sent me by Helen7 2 bottles of Port. There is to be a general election on December 6.8 Got my hair cut. Barometer : 28.31 28.76
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Patrick Rodger Stewart ‘Pat’ Muir (1879-1961), Dr Muir’s only son, living in New Zealand since 1902.
3 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, widowed but still living in Newington, Edinburgh.
4 There have been no previous references to possible debts of Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, who was living and working in Egypt at this time.
5 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
6 Dr Muir may have intended to write sparkling.
7 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
8 The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923 and led to a short-lived minority government under Ramsay MacDonald.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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